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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

#1175 You are the product in the internet economy (Facebook)

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Air Date: 4/3/2018

Today we take a look at the latest revelations about the (mis)use of Facebook's data in an attempt to influence US elections, some of those who've seen this coming for years and some thoughts on what to do about it

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Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr

Ch. 2: Act 1: Facebook Data Massively Obtained & Misused by Cambridge Analytica - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 03-20-18

Ch. 3: Song 1: Minutes - Pacha Faro


Ch. 4: Act 2: Analytics CEO CAUGHT On Tape Discussing Potential Bribery and Entrapment - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date: 03-21-18

Ch. 5: Song 2: Lakal - Speakeasy


Ch. 6: Act 3: The Facebook Alarm Bells Have Been Ringing For Years - On The Media - Air Date 3-23-18

Ch. 7: Song 3: Lahaina - Cloud Harbor


Ch. 8: Act 4: Micah Sifry on Facebook - Start Making Sense from @TheNation - Air Date 3-28-18

Ch. 9: Song 4: Entrap - Darby


Ch. 10: Act 5: Dan Rather's Message to Mark Zuckerberg - The News with Dan Rather on @theyoungturks - Air Date: 03-27-18

Ch. 11: Song 5: Contrarian - Sketchbook


Ch. 12: Act 6: Is Facebook in trouble? - The Inquiry - Air Date 3-8-18


Ch. 13: Act 7: You Are The Product: Is Facebook's Business Model Spying & Selling Our Data? - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 03-22-18


Voicemails

Ch. 14: Explaining long-term use of opiates - Marguerite from Fortuna, CA

Ch. 15: Liberal Trump voter - Sam from Nashville, TN

Ch. 16: US has been most influential country - Sam from Nashville, TN

Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent


Ch. 17: Final comments on tenets of “freedom from” and “freedom to”

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Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent

(Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions)


Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Best of Life podcast.

0:04.9

We are in the final days of our climate-wide fundraiser.

0:08.2

We ran the campaign for a couple of months and put it on hiatus, but we didn't actually

0:12.6

reach our goals.

0:13.6

So we're coming back for round two.

0:15.3

The actual drop dead deadline is just a couple of weeks away in this month.

0:20.4

So if you can contribute any amount, it would be helpful and would go to a good cause that

0:25.0

I've been supporting for years.

0:26.8

So there's a link in the show notes right on your device and of course at BestOfLef.com.

0:32.7

Thanks for your support and now welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of

0:36.6

Life podcast in which we shall learn about the problem with Facebook, the most recent

0:40.8

scandal.

0:41.8

They're ongoing scandal that's baked right into their business model and some thoughts

0:45.2

on what to do about it.

0:46.6

Our clips stay come from the David Pakman show, the majority report on the media.

0:51.0

We're making sense, the news with Dan Rather, the inquiry and the Tom Huffman program

0:56.8

and stick around to the end for my conversation with a misunderstood Trump supporter and my

1:01.3

breakdown of what I think are our differing understandings of freedom.

1:16.4

We are in the throes of one of the biggest tech privacy scandals in a very long time.

1:22.7

It's now apparent that the data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked for

1:28.2

the Trump campaign.

1:29.2

We learned over the last 24 hours based on a channel for report that they engage in everything

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